Question follow-through · 1949

Alcoholic Drinks: Minimum Unit Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of minimum pricing for alcohol.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 26 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 30 Jul 2024
Answer: 2 Aug 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

26 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of minimum pricing for alcohol.
30 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Aug 2024
Answer published
Any new plans to reduce alcohol harm will be announced in Parliament in the normal way. There are no such plans at present.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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